opprobrium
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The opprobrium that ensued in the course of a shamelessly one-sided trial shredded their reputations, cost them their jobs and led to an incurable banishment from public life.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
For that reason, I’m constantly amazed and grateful, given that this column relies on people sharing their stories and risking opprobrium from strangers by asking for advice.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 23, 2025
Would you say the opprobrium that came down on him was justified or excessive?
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2025
Honor codes, which apply not just to whole societies but to specific groups within them, are enforced externally with social opprobrium, and internally by shame.
From Slate • Aug. 7, 2025
While bearing voluntarily in his single life all the opprobrium borne by slaves; through all that fellowship and sympathy, and on its sole behalf, he guarded his own honor with an infinite jealousy.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.
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